Inspiration

I was just curious as to where people find sources of inspiration for their characters and stories?

Starting up this guild has been a real pleasure for me, and I'd like to show a list of where I've been getting my inspiration from recently

Star Wars Influences:

Granse Confederacy
Zann Consortium
The Black Sun

Movie Influences:

Star Wars (obviously!)
Wanted
Blade Runner
Hitman

I'll add more when I can think of some.

EDIT: Please read Lunar's description below and show us where you're getting your inspiration from for your character.

As much as I'm sure we'd all love to say that our characters are 400% our own creations, its more that likely that we were inspired by something / someone (or in fact, multiple sources) that helped us shape our characters.

Who / What do you think helped shape your character(s)?

I'll start whilst its still fresh in my head:

Ree'lak:

My little Twi'lek picks up most of her perpetual-motion mentality, mischievousness and her mix of innocence/minx demeanor from:

Farscape's Chiana:



Whereas her (somewhat annoying) optimism coupled with her sharp wit and ability to survive just about any situation (not necc unscathed) most likely comes from:

Firefly / Serenity's Wash:

OMG I completely missed this thread :S
Goddamnit.

Apologies, you'll see an almost Identical one in Here.

My bad :S

Oops... soz Sure I just spotted Your Thread.

Can they be combined or something? or shall I just delete my one?

Not to worry, I've merged the topics now. Right I'll put one up for my Falleen character. I warn you these are a bit odd!

Also this may change if I can actually play one in game.

"THE MYSTERIOUS FALLEEN"

This character gets his enigmatic approach, his need for wanting to stay anonymous and his connections to the crime world from:

Keyser Söze of the movie 'The Usual Suspects':



His cool, calm and collected yet arrogant demeanor comes from:

James Bond, 007:



Last but not least and the main influence for my character (for obvious reasons) is:

Prince Xizor from Star Wars - The Shadows of the Empire

Huzzah! more....more!

Yeah it's quite a mish-mash from me there. I was also going to add 'Charlie' from Charlie's Angels and Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget but I thought that was going too far!!!

I'd also like to thank my pet Chameleon Little Jim for making me love colour changing freaks in the first place!



p.s. He's a lot bigger now!

Awww he's several different shades of awesome!

I used the have a pet Bearded Dragon, he was called Eddie. Eddie Lizzard (dont ask, blame by girlfriend).

He used to sit on my head and watch tv with me; gently giving me a slap if he didnt like the current program.

R.I.P /sigh. Miss ya lil' dude.

I used to have a two foot pet iguana.....i called him Urp (Sounded cool at the time haha). He was an angry little ****. Always whipped the crap out of everyone...sometimes losing his tail in the process. Had a red mark across my face for a week cause i didnt see him on the back of the couch. *sigh* i loved that little guy

looks like we're all cold-blooded

Well, I got my inspiration for Skursir from a Red Cardinal Bird (don't ask why) I love that bird, a childhood favourite (and still is).

Oh, and of course, Bossk. Ah, the galaxy had never been more full of wookie skins...

My inspirations?

Jack Burton from Big trouble In Little China

Indiana Jones (not Han Solo, although they are similar and Solo is SW)

Shogo Kawada from Battle Royale

Ian Malcolm from Jurrasic Park

Guess I can post this now that I have a character.

Researching the Ubese and learning of their clan based society really put me in mind of the Fremen of Frank Herbert's "Dune" fame and probably influenced my decision to build a Ubese character. Fremen don't mind blowing ***t up for a cause which fits.



As for personality... Sort of Halo Jones (from the comic) meets Sarah Connor (from the Terminator TV show Sara Connor Chronicles). But he's a guy.



Of course, that's the idea. Subject to not sticking closely to it during roleplay when getting over excited.

I thought I'd bump this thread cause it's really interesting.

C'mon people post away!

Inspiration
My inspiration to my charecter (How am i writing now), stories (When iam Playing RP with friends) and real life

Theodore Rossevelt, 26th President of USA
Jesus
James Bond
Obi- Wan Kenobi
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Lord_Nord wrote:

Inspiration
My inspiration to my charecter (How am i writing now), stories (When iam Playing RP with friends) and real life

Theodore Rossevelt, 26th President of USA
Jesus
James Bond
Obi- Wan Kenobi
J. Robert Oppenheimer

So I think we can assume you'll be playing a good guy, then.

If i said i wasn't inspired by something i would be lying. Unconsciously most of our characters are inspired by something... I gave it a long 5 second thought to figure out what character are mine inspired by. Strangely both of them are inspired by the same one person...

guess who?

A mentally-damaged sociopathic killing machine that makes random comments? Yeah sounds about right

Lunarwolf wrote:

A mentally-damaged sociopathic killing machine that makes random comments? Yeah sounds about right

Aliendra crossed with Masurigi? Sounds about right:P

For my character Lilin Hylo my initial idea was to have a character I would definitely be able to play when the game gets released. So that made her human and a force user.

I had a (fairly) straight-laced neutral character in Redwatch and was working on a jovial good guy (- more to come on him) so to be able to fully flex my role playing muscles she had to be a she, self-indulgent and a bit evil. But to give her some saving graces I came up with the background I did (ie; it's not her fault).

So looking back my character probably is most like:


Elle Driver, Kill Bill


and Bridget Fonda's character from The Assassin

Fuza 'Fuze' Macoy

Influencing my creating Fuza Macoy, these characters play a significant and an almost thoroughly allegorical part making Fuze into the archetypal character that he is.

Robin Hood, in that he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Diverging to be more practical for the universe by have a wealthy adopted father.

With Lando Calrissian's personality. Also his inclination towards gambling in the verse.



Odan-Urr, a great Jedi from the Great Hyperspace war (From which the Dark Emperor hails), shares Fuze's appetite for knowledge, influencing his scholarly pursuit.

Haysh Waadas

I haven't finished his page yet but, reading it, my allusions are quite evident.

Chodo Habat, leader of the Telos Restoration Project, inspired his parents. Their adopted mother Aaysha is based on a healer in the Darth Bane books, named Jacob. And his entrance into the academy is based on really any Jedi.



Anakin's owning those Sand People who killed his parents for Haysh's first signs of the dark side.



And of course, Jolee.



And of course, Kreia.

And Frank Abignale Jr. from Catch Me if You Can, the guys from the Sting, Matchstick Man, a couple of those shows they have about cons, for his inspiration for his profession.

My second alt (well actually my first, having been put together before Lilin) Palu Stris was almost a knee-jerk reaction to all the super special highly trained toughest, cleverest, strongest self-assured angst-ridden killing machines out there in RPG Land.

Palu is uncomplicated to the point of almost being simple. He's not overly bright. He's open, honest and friendly. He'll go out of his way to help you and is therefore easily taken advantage of. He's had an unremarkable childhood and adult life thus far and is your average guy down the pub. The one you get stuck with who you wish would shut up but can't hold anything against cos they're nice - just annoying.

The thing about Palu is that he's more than happy to play the supporting actor role in his life's movie when he should be playing the leading man.

As there aren't (at the time of writing) many support character classes in the guild I've gone down a multi-class mechanic/medic role for him and woven the reasons into his background.

Definite inspirations for Palu come in the form of Firefly's Kaylee and LotR's Samwise Gamgee.

Sam rocks, but Kaylee is just increible. Interesting fact? Jewel (who plays Kaylee) is pretty much like that in real life, a hottie AND a sweetheart. What a combo!

My character Jens Jutoon, I sort of think of him a cross between to Mal Reynolds, Indiana Jones, Lando Calrissian and a bit of Rick Deckard thrown in.

Vivaa Uko'od, she's got a little bit of Asajj Ventress a bit of Elle Driver and some Budd from Kill Bill as well. I'm still really working her out, but I sort of picture her with those type of character traits.

Edit: I didn't read the thread before I posted and so didn't realize Redwatch had also a character with a bit of Elle Driver in her. I wasn't copying, honest!